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The following is from an Altaic saga, in the collection of Radloff:--Beyond the sea, on a rock surrounded with…

Date of account: English edition published 1872
Source: Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2)
Reference: Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2) · selected passage 44
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-25

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The following is from an Altaic saga, in the collection of Radloff:--Beyond the sea, on a rock surrounded with treasures, a dwarf girl is brought up, against whom aggressive warriors can prevail nothing. She sends all enemies away, after loading them with gold and silver, and placing on their heads part of the hair of her forehead, which proves to be sufficient to cover seven men. In this marvellous hair, in this enchanted maiden, and in the warriors who come by sea, who does not recognise the veil of the maiden aurora of the Vedâs, who uncovers her bosom before the sun her husband, and the sea which the warrior-sun crosses, and from which he emerges to come to the aurora?--who does not recognise the golden fleece, Jason, Medea, the Argonauts of Hellenic tradition?

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